1952 Topps Hi # Empty Wax Case - $50K!

[esquiresports]

The last 1952 Topps empty wax box only brought $650. Wax boxes (arguably) make for nice displays and make an oftentimes recognizable visual connection. No kids ever saw the case boxes, so there's no connection there. They also lack nice graphics. A case box may be at least 24 times more rare, and more likely hundreds of times more rare, but I don't see it bringing more than a small multiple more than a single box. The only example I could find that is on point is a 1956 Topps case box sold in 2000. It went for $412. That is 13 years ago but at the top of a prior card bubble.

[Volod]

Agree on the blatantly obvious point. If someone came across a wooden shipping pallet that once held Topps case boxes in 1952, I wonder what an over-zealous collector might pay for it?

[ALR-bishop]

If it's graded PSA authentic, who knows

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Volod

Agree on the blatantly obvious point. If someone came across a wooden shipping pallet that once held Topps case boxes in 1952, I wonder what an over-zealous collector might pay for it?

LOL And then the forklift that carried that pallet, and prior to that...

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Paul S

LOL And then the forklift that carried that pallet

And, of course, a Topps exclusive memorabilia card with a swatch from the overalls of the guy driving the forklift

[KCRfan1]

Too funny! Somewhere there is a junior executive at Topps reading the posts here and thinking " hmmmmm, I wonder......."

[steve B]

There's a whole series in it for them. Rags used to wipe down the press, Bits of the ink containers, (with rare 1/1 can lid box toppers) uniform swatches from the truck driver who dropped off the blank paper, and the one who picked up the shipments......

Get after it Topps! I demand these in the 2014 Set at the latest!

Steve B

[Volod]

Hey, I opened this can of worms...I mean brilliant marketing strategy. I was planning to get the pallet graded, put it through a chipper and sell authenticated toothpicks for a buck.